June 29, 2020
The 1990’s Called, They Want Their OLAP Back*Author’s Note: This is an update to the blog post “The 1990’s Called, They Want Their OLAP Back,” originally published in June 2020. For the modern cloud-first data pro, the terms “OLAP” and “cube” are dirty words. That said, many…
April 15, 2020
When Everything You Do Becomes Data, OLAP is More Important than EverIn the modern day world, data is created with every step you take. Buying coffee with your credit card? Data. Navigating with Google Maps? Scrolling Instagram? Data! With the world becoming increasingly data-driven, the more you know, the better you…
April 13, 2020
Free Access to AtScale’s COVID-19 Cloud OLAP ModelIt has been a few weeks since my last note to the AtScale community about our commitment to customers and partners during this unprecedented time of COVID-19. First and foremost, the thoughts and prayers of the AtScale family are with…
April 7, 2020
Watch These 4 Videos to Become an OLAP ExpertInformation is more accessible today than it ever has been before. With online learning technologies and resources, we’re seeing that it’s a reality for anyone to become a self-taught expert in almost any subject. While we’re all spending these next…
April 1, 2020
OLAP, MOLAP, ROLAP? COLAP? Why Should BI Care? Which Should You Choose?OLAP is the acronym for OnLine Analytical Processing. Database researcher, E. F. Codd, coined the term "on-line analytical processing" (OLAP) in a whitepaper published by Computerworld in 1993 that set out twelve rules for analytic systems. The term OLAP was…
March 1, 2020
The 1990’s Called. They Want their OLAP Back.*Author’s Note: This is an update to the blog post “The 1990’s Called, They Want Their OLAP Back,” which was originally published here. For many enterprises, OLAP and “Cube” had become dirty words. When asked if people had experience with “cubes”,…
November 21, 2019
AtScale: A Better SSASMy co-founders and I started AtScale to change the trajectory of the analytics tools of our day. As consumers of tools like Microstrategy, Qlik and SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) at Yahoo!, we were often disappointed by the complexity of…
July 23, 2019
AtScale + Google BigQuery: Live Excel Connection and OLAP for a Powerful Multi-dimensional Analytics PlatformGoogle BigQuery revolutionized data warehouses with its cloud based, serverless, fully managed data platform. Turn BigQuery into a massively parallel, multi-dimensional powerhouse with AtScale. AtScale and Google BigQuery together provide a cost effective, business friendly, analytics solution that includes a…
March 4, 2019
The 1990’s called, they want their OLAP back.In 1992, Arbor Software shipped the first version of Essbase. Which stands for Extended Spreadsheet Database. In 1998, Microsoft shipped Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services. The time of multi-’dimensional’ databases had come into full being and almost 30 years later…
